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Volume 66, No. 1 (March 2022)

Covert Sabotage: Explosive Coal—Bombs Hiding in Plain Sight

By David Welker

Many entities have long worked to create covert sabotage devices to achieve their ends. Most have been clumsy or nearly overt while others have been ingenious. One of these was a disarmingly simple device developed during the US Civil War: explosive coal.

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